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J/AJ/109/2318                    Extragalactic IRAS sources (Condon+ 1995)
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Radio identifications of extragalactic IRAS sources
     Condon J.J., Anderson E., Broderick J.J.
    <Astron. J. 109, 2318 (1995)>
   1995AJ....109.2318C
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ADC_Keywords: Infrared sources ; Radio sources
Abstract: Extragalactic sources detected at lambda=60um were selected from the IRAS Faint Source Catalog, Version 2 by the criterion S(60um)>=S(12um). They were identified by position coincidence with radio sources stronger than 25mJy at 4.85GHz in the 6.0sr declination band 0deg<Dec.<+75deg (excluding the 0.05sr region 12h40m<R.A.<14h40m, 0deg<Dec.<+5deg) and with radio sources stronger than 80mJy in the 3.4sr area 0h<R.A.<20h, -40deg<Dec.<0deg (plus the region 12h40m<R.A.<14h40m, 0deg<Dec.<+5deg). Fields containing new candidate identifications were mapped by the VLA at 4.86GHz with about 15" FWHM resolution. Difficult cases were confirmed or rejected with the aid of accurate (sigma~1") radio and optical positions. The final sample of 354 identifications in Omega=9.4sr is reliable and large enough to contain statistically useful numbers of radio-loud FIR galaxies and quasars. The logarithmic FIR/radio flux ratio parameter q can be used to distinguish radio sources powered by "starbursts" from those powered by "monsters." Starbursts and normal spiral galaxies in a lambda=60um flux-limited sample have a narrow (sigma_q=0.14+/-0.01) q distribution with mean <q>=2.74+/-0.01, and none have "warm" FIR spectra [alpha(25um, 60um)<1.5]. The absence of radio-quiet (but not completely silent) blazars indicates that nearly all blazars become optically thin at frequencies nu<~100GHz. Nonthermal sources with steep FIR/optical spectra and dust-embedded sources visible only at FIR and radio wavelengths must be very rare.
File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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    ReadMe             80        .   This file
 table1.dat            97      354   Infrared and radio data
 table2.dat            96      354   Optical data and derived quantities
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See also:
     II/156 : IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10, Version 2.0 (Moshir+ 1989)
     VIII/14 : 87GB Catalog of radio sources (Gregory et al., 1991)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units    Label      Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---      IRAS       IRAS FSC2 name FHHMM.M+DDMM
  13- 14  I2     h        RAh        IRAS FSC2 B1950 right ascension
  16- 17  I2     min      RAm        IRAS FSC2 B1950 right ascension
  19- 22  F4.1   s        RAs        IRAS FSC2 B1950 right ascension
      24  A1     ---      DE-        IRAS FSC2 B1950 Declination sign
  25- 26  I2     deg      DEd        IRAS FSC2 B1950 Declination
  28- 29  I2     arcmin   DEm        IRAS FSC2 B1950 Declination
  31- 32  I2     arcsec   DEs        IRAS FSC2 B1950 Declination
      34  A1     ---      l_S12      [< ] S12 upper limit symbol
  35- 41  F7.3   Jy       S12        IRAS 12 um flux density (1)
      43  A1     ---      l_S25      [< ] S25 upper limit symbol
  44- 50  F7.3   Jy       S25        IRAS 25 um flux density (1)
      52  A1     ---      l_S60      [< ] S60 upper limit symbol
  53- 60  F8.3   Jy       S60        IRAS 60 um flux density (1)
      62  A1     ---      l_S100     [< ] S100 upper limit symbol
  63- 70  F8.3   Jy       S100       IRAS 100 um flux density (1)
  72- 73  I2     h        RAh2       []? Radio B1950 right ascension
  75- 76  I2     min      RAm2       []? Radio B1950 right ascension
  78- 81  F4.1   s        RAs2       []? Radio B1950 right ascension
      83  A1     ---      DE-2       Radio B1950 Declination sign
  84- 85  I2     deg      DEd2       []? Radio B1950 Declination
  87- 88  I2     arcmin   DEm2       []? Radio B1950 Declination
  90- 91  I2     arcsec   DEs2       []? Radio B1950 Declination
  92- 97  I6     mJy      S4.85GHz   []? 4.85 GHz flux density (2)
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Note (1): Flux densities at 12, 25, 60, and 100um from
           (in descending order of preference)
     the IRAS Catalog of Large Optical Galaxies (Rice et al. VII/109)
     the revised IRAS Bright Galaxy Sample (Soifer et al. 1989AJ.....98..766S)
     the IRAS Small Scale Structures Catalog (Helou & Walker VII/73) and
     the FSC2 itself (Moshir et al. II/156)
Note (2): 4.85GHz flux density from the 87GB source catalog
          (Gregory & Condon 1991 VIII/14) or measured from the 87GB or 90GB
          sky maps, and corrected for strong confusing sources visible in the
          4.86GHz VLA maps.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units    Label    Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---      IRAS     IRAS FSC2 name FHHMM.M+DDMM
  13- 25  A13    ---      Name     Common name
  27- 28  I2     h        RAh      []? Optical B1950 right ascension
  30- 31  I2     min      RAm      []? Optical B1950 right ascension
  33- 37  F5.2   s        RAs      []? Optical B1950 right ascension
      39  A1     ---      DE-      Optical B1950 Declination sign
  40- 41  I2     deg      DEd      []? Optical B1950 Declination
  43- 44  I2     arcmin   DEm      []? Optical B1950 Declination
  46- 49  F4.1   arcsec   DEs      []? Optical B1950 Declination
  51- 58  A8     ---      Type     Identification morphology from the UGC
  60- 63  F4.1   mag      mp       []? Apparent photographic magnitude
  65- 70  F6.1   Mpc      Dist     []? Distance for H_0=50km/s/Mpc (1)
      72  A1     ---      l_q      [<] Upper limit symbol for q
  73- 77  F5.2   ---      q        Log FIR/radio flux-ratio parameter, 4.85 GHz
  79- 83  F5.2   ---      alp      []? Radio spectral index between 1.4 and 5GHz
      85  A1     ---     l_alp_IR  [>] Lower limit symbol for alp_IR
  86- 90  F5.2   ---      alp_IR   FIR spectral index between 25-60 um
  92- 96  A5     ---      ES       Energy source, S = stars, M = monster
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Note (1): Distance from the Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog
          (Sandage & Tammann 1981 VII/51) or the Hubble distance based
          on H_0=50km/s/Mpc, q0=1/2.
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Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 5, 1995         Lee Brotzman [ADS] 17-Jul-1995
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